RESOLUTION 85-3198
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CITY OF HOPKINS
Hennepin County, Minnesota
RESOLUTION NO. 85-3198
A RESOLUTION CHANGING THE NAME OF EXCELSIOR AVENUE WEST
TO MAINSTREET
WHEREAS, Excelsior Avenue West is a public thoroughfare running
in an East-West direction, its easterly terminus being its junction with
Washington Avenue North, and its westerly terminus being its junction with
Shady Oak Road, and
WHEREAS, the City of Hopkins has been making every effort to
establish an identity for the downtown, and
WHEREAS, the confusion generated by the fact that our main street
is called Excelsior Avenue makes directing customers, visitors and prospective
businesses to Hopkins a major obstacle, and
WHEREAS, the City Council deems it in the interest of general public
welfare that the name Excelsior Avenue West be changed within the City of Hopkins;
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED by the City Council of the City
of Hopkins that the public thoroughfare now know as Excelsior Avenue West within
the City of Hopkins be and the same is hereby changed to MAINSTREET.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be filed with the
Hennepin County Engineer, the Hennepin County Auditor, the United States Post
Office at Hopkins, Minnesota, the City of Minnetonka and such other officials as
the City Engineer of the City of Hopkins may deem necessary or appropriate to
accomplish the purposes thereof.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City
of Hopkins held on June 4, 1985.
ROBERT MILLER, MAYOR
J. SCOTT RENNE, CITY CLERK
JERRE MILLER, CITY ATTORNEY
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